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Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.

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Gratitude at the Table

John Calvin highlights that this offering of a cake from the first dough, rather than just raw grain, made gratitude more vivid. It brought the act of thanksgiving from the distant threshing floor into the home and onto the dinner table. This served as a constant, tangible reminder for the Israelites to see God's provision in their daily bread as they prepared and ate it.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Numbers 15:20–21

18th Century

Theologian

Dough - “ Coarse meal” (Nehemiah 10:37); (Ezekiel 44:30).

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Numbers 15:20

19th Century

Bishop

Of the first of your dough.— Or, mixed meal. The word arisoth is used only in the plural number, and is…

John Calvin

John Calvin

On Numbers 15:20

16th Century

Theologian

Ye shall offer up a cake. Here another kind of first-fruits is required: to offer up sacred cakes from the first of their dough. First-fru…

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John Gill

John Gill

On Numbers 15:20

17th Century

Pastor

You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an
heave offering

Of the…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Numbers 15:1–21

17th Century

Minister

Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When you come into the…